ISP Vispa Internet UK has acquired the broadband DSL (ADSL) customer base of Scotland based Abel Internet, a former rival. The move means that more than 700 business and residential customers have now been transferred from Abel to Vispa.

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BT Openreach, which is responsible for ensuring that all rival operators have equality of access to BT's local network, has today announced January 2010 trials of next generation Fibre-to-the-Premise ( FTTP ) technology in “Brownfield” sites. However they've been issuing briefings about it for several months so it's not really all that new.

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New research has revealed that almost three-quarters (73%) of adults claim their UK broadband provider fails to explain the product sufficiently. Despite Ofcom guidance on making broadband speeds clear to consumers at the point of sale, one in six (17%) adults added that their ISP did not explain the technical aspects - such as speed - at all when buying the service.

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New Cisco sponsored research, which was conducted by the University of Oxford's Said Business School and University of Oviedo, has found that the UK placed a lowly 25th when ranked against 66 other countries in terms of broadband network quality. The global average download speed was also revealed to be 4.75Mbps, with uploads averaging 1.3Mbps.

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Mobile operator O2 UK has been chosen by parent company Telefonica to be one of six different providers in six countries (Spain, UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Brazil and Argentina) to take part in trials of its 'up to' 340Mbps next generation Long Term Evolution ( LTE ) based Mobile Broadband technology.

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The annual PC Pro Awards took place last night at London's Hurlingham Club, which saw UK broadband ISP Zen Internet winning yet another "Best ISP" gong for 2009. Zen has been named PC Pro "Best ISP" for the past five years and also recently won its 8th Best Buy label from consumer magazine Which?.

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iBAHN, a digital entertainment and Internet solutions provider for the hospitality and meeting industries, today launched a new website to celebrate 10 years of broadband (10yearsofbroadband.com). The site is an online community hub offering a review of the past decade of broadband evolution, and a look to the future.

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Consumer Focus (CF), a statutory organisation campaigning for a fair deal for consumers in the UK, has called for the debate on illegal broadband file sharing to focus on the reform of the UK copyright licensing system, not on punitive enforcement measures (i.e. customer disconnection from ISPs).

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